Wildgrape NewsDesk is yet another .NET news aggregator. It features the basic capabilities to read RSS feeds, although support to RSS 2.0 is preliminary. Nevertheless, it supports conditional GETs, which is pretty much a required feature for aggregators now.
I’m impressed with the number of .NET aggregators that have been developed in the last few months. I believe this development is related to the high availability of libraries for Microsoft’s new platform. From the GUI down to the RSS parser itself, most of the required pieces for reading and displaying feeds are already done.
It would be interesting to know if any of those aggregators is being adopted beyond the developer community, which is more lilkely to have the .NET run-time installed. I don’t believe other classes of users will suffer the run-time’s download time.